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Never Tweet At Recruits: An Early Signing Period Primer

I originally published this article before the 2017 recruiting class signed their National Letters of Intent this past February, but feel it needs to be reiterated every year. Take my advice. Apply this to your everyday life, not just on signing day. Don’t be that creepy guy tweeting at high school kids.

College football recruiting is a fickle mistress that hinges on the decisions made by seventeen and eighteen year old kids. Imagine yourself in your senior year of high school, with everything still ahead of you. You’re a star football player, and you have coaches from every program you grew up watching coming at you and offering you the world to come play at their school.